The Circle
2017 · Movie · PG-13 · 110 min · ★ 5.5 · 30% critics
A young tech worker joins a powerful Internet corporation and quickly rises through the ranks. As her choices gain impact, the story turns tense around privacy, surveillance, and personal freedom, raising big questions about what comes next for society.
Based on The Circle
Also known as Melinda's Song · Le cercle : Le pouvoir de tout changer
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-04-27
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Critic score
- 30/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (4,589 votes)
- Box office
- $33,900,000
About
You’ll likely like this if you enjoy thought-provoking tech thrillers about privacy and surveillance; Not for you if you want a more unpredictable plot, more character depth, or a fully satisfying execution, and you may also prefer The Day the Earth Stood Still instead.
Pros: timely privacy themes; strong premise; relevant social questions | Cons: predictable story; pacing feels uneven; underdeveloped ideas
Themes
- technology
- video surveillance
- criminal
- cyber thriller
- technicians
- tech company
- techno thriller
Cast & crew
Emma Watson
as Mae Holland
Tom Hanks
as Eamon Bailey
John Boyega
as Ty Lafitte
Karen Gillan
as Annie Allerton
Ellar Coltrane
as Mercer Regalado
Patton Oswalt
as Tom Stenton
Glenne Headly
as Bonnie Holland
Bill Paxton
as Vinnie Holland
Poorna Jagannathan
as Dr. Jessica Villalobos
Nate Corddry
as Dan
Directed by James Ponsoldt